Quality of Life Clinical Trial
— FUND-HFOfficial title:
Financial Support in an Underserved and Low-Income Population With Heart Failure
The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether financial support in the form of a one-time $500 stipend would improve medication adherence and quality of life in low-income, socially-needy patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in the post-discharge setting. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Will financial support improve heart failure quality of life? - Will financial support improve medication adherence? Participants will complete surveys on quality of life, social stress, and spending habits at their baseline visit. Participants will be randomly assigned to receive $500 at their baseline visit or $0 at their baseline visit. At their one month visit, quality of life and medication adherence will be assessed. These results will be compared between groups. The group that received $0 at their baseline visit will be provided $500 at their one-month visit and return for a two-month visit. At that visit, quality of life and medication adherence will be assessed. These results will be compared to their one-month results. Researchers will compare the 1-month quality of life scores and medication adherence scores between the immediate financial support vs delayed financial support. Researchers will also compare 1-month vs 2-month quality of life and adherence data for participants who were randomized to the delayed financial support group.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 120 |
Est. completion date | December 1, 2024 |
Est. primary completion date | July 1, 2024 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years to 80 Years |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Age > 18 - English speaking participants who completed SOCIAL-HF study surveys - Ejection Fraction <=40% and eligible for at least one component of GDMT - Has at least some difficulty paying monthly bills (Somewhat Difficult and Very Difficult) - Annual household income <130% Federal Poverty Limit - Have at least two additional social needs based on the following domains: - Cost-related nonadherence - Food Insecurity - Housing Instability - Transportation Difficulty - Unemployment - Household Crowding: Person/Room Ratio >1 - Rent Burden: Rent/Income Ratio >30% - Low social support - Interpersonal Violence - History of Discrimination Exclusion Criteria: - Unwilling to return for 1 and 2-month follow-up visits. - Currently in jail or prison - Primary residence outside Dallas County - Legal Blindness - Systolic blood pressure <90 mmHg on screening - Contraindications or Intolerance all medications available for therapeutic drug monitoring (metoprolol, losartan, lisinopril, valsartan, and spironolactone) - Unable to answer orientation questions. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | UT Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas | Texas |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
United States,
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Psychologic Stress by Kessler Screening Scale | This is a ten-item instrument measuring psychological distress. Each item has a five-level response scale. The range is 10-50, with higher scores denoting greater psychological distress. | 1 Month | |
Other | Psychologic Stress by Kessler Screening Scale | This is a ten-item instrument measuring psychological distress. Each item has a five-level response scale. The range is 10-50, with higher scores denoting greater psychological distress. | 2 months | |
Other | Number of Emergency Room Visits | This outcome will be captured through review of the electronic medical record and adjudicated using the DFW Hospital Consortium | 1 Month | |
Other | Number of Emergency Room Visits | This outcome will be captured through review of the electronic medical record and adjudicated using the DFW Hospital Consortium | 2 Month | |
Other | Number of Hospitalizations | This outcome will be captured through review of the electronic medical record and adjudicated using the DFW Hospital Consortium | 1 Month | |
Other | Number of Hospitalizations | This outcome will be captured through review of the electronic medical record and adjudicated using the DFW Hospital Consortium | 2 months | |
Other | Appointment Completion Rate | This outcome will be captured through review of the electronic medical records | 1 Month | |
Other | Appointment Completion Rate | This outcome will be captured through review of the electronic medical records | 2 months | |
Primary | Heart Failure Quality of Life by Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) | Quality of life will be ascertained using the KCCQ-12, a validated measure of quality of life among patients with heart failure. The score contains four domains, physical limitation, symptom frequency, quality of life, and social limitations. Each subdomain provides an individual score from 0 to 100, with 0 denoting the worst and 100 denoting the best possible health. These scores are averaged and presented as a summary score. | 1 month | |
Primary | Heart Failure Quality of Life by Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) | Quality of life will be ascertained using the KCCQ-12, a validated measure of quality of life among patients with heart failure. The score contains four domains, physical limitation, symptom frequency, quality of life, and social limitations. Each subdomain provides an individual score from 0 to 100, with 0 denoting the worst and 100 denoting the best possible health. These scores are averaged and presented as a summary score. | 2 months | |
Secondary | Detection of Serum Levels of Guideline Directed Medical Therapies (GDMT) | This will be ascertained using serum therapeutic drug monitoring of guideline-directed medical therapies. | 1 month | |
Secondary | Self-reported medication adherence by Morisky Medication Adherence Scale | Self-reported medication adherence will be captured by the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale. This scale is an eight-item survey. The score ranges from 0-8, with higher scores denoting greater adherence. | 1 month | |
Secondary | Detection of Serum Levels of Guideline Directed Medical Therapies (GDMT) | This will be ascertained using serum therapeutic drug monitoring of guideline directed medical therapies. | 2 months | |
Secondary | Self-reported medication adherence by Morisky Medication Adherence Scale | Self-reported medication adherence will be captured by the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale. This scale is an eight-item survey. The score ranges from 0-8, with higher scores denoting greater adherence. | 2 months | |
Secondary | Change in social stress | This will be captured using the perceived stress scale. This is a ten-item survey assessing perceived stress over the last month. The scores range from 0-40, with higher scores denoting higher perceived stress. | 1 months | |
Secondary | Change in social stress | This will be captured using the perceived stress scale. This is a ten-item survey assessing perceived stress over the last month. The scores range from 0-40, with higher scores denoting higher perceived stress. | 2 months |
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